Its time to update Pluto.tv app, issues with channels and episodes, cant start movies and such

[orfeous1]

Many issues with the Pluto.tv app.
Needs some overhauling.

Cant play some movies that works via web browser for example.
Cant find series/shows etc that are shown on pluto website
Ads are shown

I wish that there were a filter of some kind. Since Pluto.tv took over Viafree.se i want to filter to only show viafree.se content for example.
For now some of them are visible via "On Demand"

Unusable for me at it state its in now.
Using the website for now until this app gets updated and fixed.

[Lunatixz]

From my understanding it is still a functional plugin. However, some on demand content will not load. We are in agreement that an update is needed... when I have some free time I will finalize my updates and push a release.

I'm not familiar with Viafree.se, if Pluto.TV api allows filtering then I'll be more than happy to add it when I can.

[JunesBug]

I haven't been able to get any movies to play on Pluto for the last week on any of my devices.

[ilikenwf]

This appears to be the fix for yt-dlp @Lunatixz - seems using the amazon URI works. That said, the SSL cert is then invalid.

yt-dlp/yt-dlp#6780 (comment)

[ilikenwf]

It appears adding this in playVOD fixes it, around line 658:

url = url.replace("siloh.pluto.tv", "silo-hybrik.pluto.tv.s3.amazonaws.com").replace("https", "http")

[ilikenwf]

Well, it worked once briefly and then stopped... but my ISP sucks so I'm not sure if it's that or a bug.

[ilikenwf]

Ok, so to get that working, then, we either need to choose the "best" stream possible ourselves, or just work our way from hls_2400.m3u8:

This should work for most videos...but it may be more prudent to fetch the master.m3u8 and choose the highest quality option manually?

url = url.replace("siloh.pluto.tv", "silo-hybrik.pluto.tv.s3.amazonaws.com").replace("https", "http").replace("master.m3u8", "hls_2400.m3u8")

[ilikenwf]

@Lunatixz I'd put in a PR but the code isn't open on github, but the above does let me play any/all of the on demand videos...

Would this justify fixing the broken category/filtering options that come up empty and maybe adding search? ❤️

[Lunatixz]

Thanks... I'm waiting for some API changes to finish over @ Pluto.TV... Otherwise I have a working update with new API parsing parameters. Updates are coming soon... THX

https://cordcuttersnews.com/pluto-tv-has-a-new-improved-app-coming-next-month/

[Rferreira2k]

Ok, so to get that working, then, we either need to choose the "best" stream possible ourselves, or just work our way from hls_2400.m3u8:

This should work for most videos...but it may be more prudent to fetch the master.m3u8 and choose the highest quality option manually?

url = url.replace("siloh.pluto.tv", "silo-hybrik.pluto.tv.s3.amazonaws.com").replace("https", "http").replace("master.m3u8", "hls_2400.m3u8")

I added this line, the videos even run, but it freezes in the first few seconds. Anything else to do?

Thanks!

[gottahackit]

you also need to change:
if len(urls) != 0 and isinstance(urls, list):
urls = [url['url'] for url in urls if url['type'].lower() == 'hls'][0] # todo select quality

for on demand categories with only series in them
around line 325

[3052]

silo-hybrik.pluto.tv.s3.amazonaws.com is not ideal, as it sends the content as is regardless of accept-encoding. with siloh-fs.plutotv.net you can request gzip response, which should result in a faster download. note you have to be careful with siloh-fs.plutotv.net because it returns a strange 403 OK response